MacBook Pro keyboard backlight keys on Ubuntu GNU/Linux
Posted on October 4th, 2010
Just right-click on this link, save to your computer and rename it to keyboard-backlight. You can drop it at /usr/bin to execute from wherever you are.
Using keyboard-backlight from command-line
This script could have 4 different uses:
Increase backlight keyboard: sudo keyboard-backlight up
Decrease backlight keyboard: sudo keyboard-backlight down
Increase to total value of keyboard backlight: sudo keyboard-backlight total
Turn off backlight keyboard: sudo keyboard-backlight off
You can customize the amount of steps by changing the INCREMENT variable inside keyboard-backlight file.
Flash 10.1 “Gala” Gives Mac Users Hardware-Accelerated Streaming Video
Posted on June 5th, 2010
Mac (Snow Leopard): Your Mac’s processor can rest a bit easier now. Adobe has release “Gala,” a preview release of Flash 10.1 that can utilize graphics hardware to accelerate streaming web videos, reducing the strain on already-hot CPUs. (more…)